DOI issue:
No. 228 (March 1912)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0167
Studio-Talk
by this modern movement, which in most instances
puts its stamp upon its devotees.
Hans Nikolaj Hansen’s portrait of his mother
is done with much love and sincerity and with all
the authority of this highly gifted artist, of whom
other work, both with the needle and the pen,
has been previously reproduced in these pages.
The plastic contingencies are ably accounted for,
and there is both depth and atmosphere in the
room. Prof. Otto Balle’s portrait of his wife is done
with a somewhat lighter and more sketchy hand,
but the likeness is excellent, expressive and en-
dowed with a pleasing, restful vitality.
Mme. Helveg Kinch, though for several years
through her husband’s archseological researches in
the island of Rhodes compelled to relinquish her
former domain—the horse in the field and in the
town—has returned to her old love. One feels
sure of Mme. Kinch being on good terms with her
models, that she studies them with kindly and
observant interest, entering into their moods and
humours, which she perpetuates with faithfulness
and skill, be the medium oil or pencil or chalk.
E. Krause is no stranger to the readers of this
journal, several of his etchings having from time
to time been reproduced in The Studio. He is
a clever draughtsman—as will appear from the
accompanying spontaneous study of a head (p. 151)
—whether he depicts some architectural or topo-
graphical motif, a harbour scene, or a portrait.
Prof. Otto Bache, for many years the President
of the Danish Royal Academy, holds a singularly
distinguished position amongst Danish painters,
with the seniors of whom he must now be counted.
The space at my disposal does not allow me to
deal adequately with Prof. Bache’s work, still the
specimens of his paintings here reproduced will
tend to illustrate the most typical and personal
side of his art. They will bring home to the
reader that he possesses a technical skill vastly
above the ordinary. Animal life is Prof. Bache’s
favourite domain; nothing escapes his susceptible
and scrutinising eye, but one now and again feels
as if he perhaps viewed his models with a some-
what stern and searching look akin to that of the
eminent physician. Prof. Bache never condescends
to that often far-fetched and none too genuine
humour, in which some depicters of animal life are
wont to indulge. Although he has brought many
a huge monumental and often crowded canvas to a
happy consummation, of which Danish galleries
and museums bear ample witness, yet some of his
by this modern movement, which in most instances
puts its stamp upon its devotees.
Hans Nikolaj Hansen’s portrait of his mother
is done with much love and sincerity and with all
the authority of this highly gifted artist, of whom
other work, both with the needle and the pen,
has been previously reproduced in these pages.
The plastic contingencies are ably accounted for,
and there is both depth and atmosphere in the
room. Prof. Otto Balle’s portrait of his wife is done
with a somewhat lighter and more sketchy hand,
but the likeness is excellent, expressive and en-
dowed with a pleasing, restful vitality.
Mme. Helveg Kinch, though for several years
through her husband’s archseological researches in
the island of Rhodes compelled to relinquish her
former domain—the horse in the field and in the
town—has returned to her old love. One feels
sure of Mme. Kinch being on good terms with her
models, that she studies them with kindly and
observant interest, entering into their moods and
humours, which she perpetuates with faithfulness
and skill, be the medium oil or pencil or chalk.
E. Krause is no stranger to the readers of this
journal, several of his etchings having from time
to time been reproduced in The Studio. He is
a clever draughtsman—as will appear from the
accompanying spontaneous study of a head (p. 151)
—whether he depicts some architectural or topo-
graphical motif, a harbour scene, or a portrait.
Prof. Otto Bache, for many years the President
of the Danish Royal Academy, holds a singularly
distinguished position amongst Danish painters,
with the seniors of whom he must now be counted.
The space at my disposal does not allow me to
deal adequately with Prof. Bache’s work, still the
specimens of his paintings here reproduced will
tend to illustrate the most typical and personal
side of his art. They will bring home to the
reader that he possesses a technical skill vastly
above the ordinary. Animal life is Prof. Bache’s
favourite domain; nothing escapes his susceptible
and scrutinising eye, but one now and again feels
as if he perhaps viewed his models with a some-
what stern and searching look akin to that of the
eminent physician. Prof. Bache never condescends
to that often far-fetched and none too genuine
humour, in which some depicters of animal life are
wont to indulge. Although he has brought many
a huge monumental and often crowded canvas to a
happy consummation, of which Danish galleries
and museums bear ample witness, yet some of his